Built To Follow: We are created to be under the Authority of the living God!

Because God gave man so much authority, so much freedom, so much ability, so much opportunity to rule over the land that he created that he then told man, now listen, You are the created, not the creator. And because I made you and not the other way around, I'm going to put an example of that in the middle of this garden, and I'm gonna set it there, and I'm gonna tell you, don't touch it. It's off limits. Why? Because I'm God, you're not. Amen. In other words, I command you not the other way around. Don't touch it. [00:20:25] (42 seconds)  #CreatedNotCreator

What I mean by this is how many times do you try to follow Jesus and you drop the ball because you wanna do something your own way, and it feels chaotic. Things fall apart. Things don't go the way you want. It's just kinda whatever. And then you find yourself in a day, in a moment where you're worshiping God and you're in God's presence and you're hearing his word and you're reading his word and you're growing in your faith. Maybe there's bible study going on and you're growing in your faith and it just feels perfect. It's a reflection of the way you were created to be. Anything else is broken. [00:11:56] (35 seconds)  #DesignedToWorship

And it says, make every effort to add to your faith and it listed a group of things that every Christian should be applying to their life. And, yes, they get harder as they go. It's called the spiritual maturity journey. But you're supposed to practice all of them. That means, for example, the last one, agape love, means love your enemy. Even when your enemy is harming you, hurting you, and doing wrong to you, you're to love them. Why? For the sake of the gospel. [00:00:41] (27 seconds)  #AddToYourFaith

See, the Bible says even in the New Testament, it says that we are not tempted by god, but we are tempted towards sin when we give in to the lust of our flesh, the lust of our desires, when we're pulled into them and we act upon it. God's grace is this, freedom from that. Yes. Freedom from that. But it's just like the power to this building. F p and l sends power to this building. And yet, if I don't flip the light switches on, nothing happens. [00:07:28] (30 seconds)  #GraceRequiresAction

here it says, the lord god took the man and put him in the Garden Of Eden to work and to keep it and the lord god commanded him. Now, this is a proclamation of god. He is now telling the man, here's what I want you to do. That isn't that is what god is doing. He is commanding the man to obey, to listen. He's not suggesting it. He's not saying if you feel like it. He's telling him this is what you are to do. [00:18:56] (30 seconds)  #CalledToObey

Before we read this these passages, we're gonna be in Genesis chapter two and three. But before we read these passages of scripture, I want to make this statement to you. It's gonna be on the screen. We are created to be under the authority of the living God. Anything else is broken. Anything else that fits in a different category than being under the authority of the living God is a broken reflection of our purpose. Here's what I mean. If you live under the idea that you get to bring god alongside of you into your life and that he's more of a companion, broken. [00:10:24] (36 seconds)  #UnderGodsAuthority

And he is some imaginary being that you've created in your image to do what you want to affirm, what you wanna affirm, and to and to help you work through the way that you wanna live your life, broken. If he's this managerial level person that you're kinda aggravated with all the time, but you'll do what he says maybe once in a while because guess what? He's kinda in charge and you have to listen to him because people told you you had to listen to him broken. But if he is the god of heaven and earth, the creator of the universe, the lord over your life, the one who rules over you, That is the way god created you to be. [00:11:11] (45 seconds)  #GodIsSovereignLord

Church, we are called to be reminded. It's not a bad thing to be reminded. Don't don't ever feel like you're dropping the ball because you need to be reminded. Look, I'm telling you right now, there's a reason why I have certain mantras in my life that I repetitively tell myself. When I face something that's un unimaginable, something I don't know how to handle by the way, does anybody else get that? Because I have a feeling everybody else does this. That's right. When I face that, the first thing I do is look at God and I say, God, I trust you more than I trust myself. [00:36:28] (29 seconds)  #RememberAndTrust